Most people with the flu recover on their own without medical care. People with mild cases of the flu should stay home and avoid contact with others, except to get medical care. If you get the flu, your health care provider may prescribe medicine to help your body fight the infection and lessen symptoms. The main way to keep from getting the flu is to get a yearly flu vaccine.
Plucked definition, to pull off or out from the place of growth, as fruit, flowers, feathers, etc.: to pluck feathers from a chicken. See more.
The plucked string sound is generated by what's called Karplus-Strong string synthesis. In a nutshell, you create a buffer that's the size of your period (based on your sampling rate and frequency). This buffer holds noise, it basically just alternates (randomly) between an amplitude of +1 and -1.